University Daily Kansar
Wednesday, September 8, 1971
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Kansan Photo by ROBERT BURTCH
Ombudsmen Review Case Study
... Jim Moore (left), Pam Hooper and Bill Lapton . . .
By JAN KESSINGER Kansan Staff Writer
KU Ombudsmen's Office Mediates Legal Woes
The KU Ombudsman Office opened its doors Tuesday and began operation for the fall sequester.
"Mediation," Bill Lupton, Wellington second year law student, said Tuesday. "is the purpose of this office."
Dave Dysart, Wichita third year law student, agreed and added. "We are not lawyers nor a barista," he said. "The unique combination of talents to mediation" Dysart founded the office during the week of alter-
Initially, the purpose of the ambulman office was to investigate and solve problems that students may have with the University or community, Dyant said. The staff of the office is required to be students dedevote two or three hours of their time each week.
Last year, during its first full year of the operation, the office handled 55 cases. The problems ranged from a hassle over the equipment to a lack of choice of opinion over the charges for an emergency appendectomy.
These cases were in addition to numerous referrals and advice given by the office, so said that the office was able to handle as many as twenty cases a
Dysart said that the office was limited in its power to handle off-campus affairs.
"Our community scope is in our community, and we can recommend an attorney. We try to get people together to reconcile their differences," he said.
There are, however, no
limitations to their powers within the university judicial system. Students can act as councillor for certain court cases, ticket protests, and grade disputes were the most difficult said systems. Dysart handled them.
The barriers to ombudsman participation in non-university cases are that the ombudsman is not a legal expert in examination and that the Bar Association disapproves of such financial help for cases which have been excluded.
said the Bar Association considered such action to be competition.
Hours for the office are 12 to 30 m.p. weekdays in room B184 of the office building with immediate problems who cannot make it to the office may
Pam Hoocher, Liberal first year law student, and Dysart act as co-directors. The operation of the organization will be led by executive council made up of the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the first year class.
Three of the executives told newsmen they did not believe President Nixon's call for a holdover and awarded dividends to the firm.
Firms Vow Support
WASHINGTON (AP)—Executives of six corporations that were reported to have raised taxes on the company's freeze pledged support for the administration's economic policies Tuesday at a meeting of the city's finance committee.
The council last week summoned the six companies to explain why they have raised
dividend rates during the 90-day freeze period. Nixon's order does not apply to dividends although they may be redeemed to freeze them voluntarily.
McCracken said the council wanted to have the facts on each case. He said a decision may be made later by the council.
TOPEAK (AP) — A man and his wife were arrested after law officers raided their farm home Tuesday, where they Tuesday night and found what was termed the largest amount of contraband in Shawnee County.
Drug Raid Nets Couple
Battle Starts for C.S.16 Students
By ERIC KRAMER Kansan Staff Writer
Students in Computer Science 16 are now engaged in a 14-week battle against the University's General Electric computer in an
The lecturer says "The average key punch is broken a little less than one-third of the time." The students laugh, because everyone "knows" that the professor modeled efficient and trouble-free. The lecturer doesn't laugh, because he wasn't joking.
For their two hours credit they will be at the center each week. Worst of all, they spend sleepless nights at Summerfield Hall, where the com
Although students don't see the University's computer they certainly see a keypoint machine. A one night lecture is offered by the Computation Center. Students who attend the course will have opportunities on the use and basic repair work of the IBM 26 key punch.
HE GOES DOWN to Summerfield and sees that about a third of the keypunches are not in the book. He sees and sees a scrape of paper which says "Out of Order, do not use." After experiencing this several times he realizes that this is going to be a long semester.
Later in the first week the students must complete their first assignment. Most of the program is already written, but the student will have a punch at it.
He stands in the middle of room 105 and waits for a keypunch operator to leave his seat. He
asks the machine's operator if he is through and the operator replies. "yes."
Amid the tired eyes and noise of the Computation Center there is an unbelievable amount of courtesy. If the operator had not quit because he broke the desk, the student can type his cards.
The student finds the release,
feed and register buttons. He presses them in the proper order.
He closes the door. The card is closed. When he touches the first key, the machine takes off and pinches the card the way it wants.
THE AUTO SKIP auto duo switch is in the wrong position. The student tries again. The same thing happens. A little blue plastic thing is in the wrong place, and he starts to punch his first card. He starts in column one, but later realizes that Fortran statements start in column seven. He starts over and finally finishes, but he never sees him. He notices them and tries to remember how to correct cards.
He remembers the dup key and realizes he must get the incorrect card back into the machine. A quick check tells him that the card is in the stack, and came out, so he looks at the other end of the machine and places the card in the stack with the blank cards. This is not the proper way to put a card back into the card but with a little luck it will work.
After ruining a small stack of
HE PUNCHES the dup key.
The dup key is much like a power space on a typewriter, except that it is much like a typewriter where you want.
cards the student realizes that he should take his finger off the key about five columns before the column where he wishes to stop. He can then move the strokes on the key to approach the proper column. With luck he can get the dup key stopped in the column, but the stroke more often than half the time.
He finishes his desk and takes it to the input desk, where a girl looks at him and says "KUUCC" (pronounced "quick"). He looks at her stupidity and she says her stupidity (pronounced "normal").
She decides that he doesn't know what he is doing and that he is a C. S. 16 student. Although the girl goes through this hassle she learns to be more resilient, she remains courteous and decides the job should run KUICC.
THE NEXT CONCEPT the beginning programmer learns is turn-around time, the time it takes a machine to process some reason unknown to C. S. I. 16 students a macheine, which can add something like 1,000 sixteenth-digit numbers in 1/10,000 second, to process 3 drawers of cards.
When the printout becomes available, the programmer finds it hard to determine if the error in his program. The wonderful computer knows what the error was and tells the computer he has made. For example the computer might say that error 908 was made. The student does not realize how the error will eventually someone shows him where to find the error chart. The student looks up error 908 and sees a S(X) GT-88-EX (S(x) Set equals
X. Everything is still somewhat less than clear crystal. Fortran is a language with a small intricacy and inductive rules for punctuation.
THE STUDENT ASKS one of the following questions about the object ABS(X) GT-88-EXP. See equals X means and he is told that employees are not allowed to use ABS(X).
The student programmer is left with only his two basic tools, trickery and guess work. He has a book about Fortran that he reads. But it seems to have been written for a frustrated mathematician.
With trickery and guess work the student gets his first program completed and free of errors after about three or four more tests. He has done a few simple arithmetic problems with a computer.
He does about three more projects before the first test.
THE STUDENT ARRIVES at the test room a few minutes early and asks the student next to him if he thinks the test will be hard. He explains that he has dropped the course twice and funked it once.
The teaching assistant makes up the exams and the student is glad the T.A. doesn't go to lectures often. Some students say the course can be broken down into the exams, the programs, the lectures, and the exams. Actually the three are related in some ways.
The exam is over and it's back to programs. About half way through the semester the student will be unable to solve a problem
Names of the man and his wife were not released.
Seniors Sponsor Placement Plan
The product of his efforts will be seen in the Placement Manual to be available to dues-paying seniors on Sept. 15, and in a 'Who's Who at KU in 72—(Look at Kansas) booklet to be sent Q-15 to the 40 participating Kansas "blue chin" firms.
The 40 firms include some of the top industries, commercial banks, savings and loan companies, utilities, publishing firms, merchants and insurance companies. In addition to preparing the company Boeing, Alimark Cards and Gates LearJet and other national corporations such as Colgate Palmolive Co., Goddhear Tire & Rubber, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., Procurement Gamble and Phillip Petroleum.
A project sponsored by the 1972 senior class to provide for two-way communication between Kansas employers and graduating seniors at KU could be the only one of its kind in the nation.
BY GALLE TRIOO
Kansan Staff Writer
Seniors who have paid their taxes and move filled out a paper form that includes the name of the Placement Manual. They will also be included in the annual report and thumb-sized photo of the participant will be his name, campus and permanent addresses and phone numbers. After graduation, major and degree approximate GPA, activities, training or job experience has
with his program, so he goes up the hill to room 15 Strong Hall for consulting.
The project plan was conceived and is being implemented by Jude, the senior executive and senior and chairman of the occupational interview guide
CONSULTING IS OPEN in the afternoons and T.A.'s are on duty to help the students with their homework program and applies his two basic tools, advanced trickery and sophisticated guess work. They have a lot of everything about Fortran, but they have had a lot of practice with it. Any problem or any question they are given enough time. They know things such as 16-3 equals 14 when the students worked with things called DO Loops.
Each firm has supplied its local address, the name of its per- person employee, and the people they would like prospective employees to hold. Students may
follow up these leads directly or go through their schools to the employers.
Schwartz said the purposes of the Placement project were to help students from other colleges the committee are first "to provide a service for seniors and recent high school graduates in the state of Kansas retain its graduates instead of exporting
He also said the project provided a more encompassing process and a different approach to programming. He modeled and often impractical on-camps interviewing and recruiting. He said his hope was that students would learn business and engineering school's placement offices to
Any seniors who have paid or are planning to pay senior class dues and who would like to participate in the placement project, may pick up a resume at Room 103 in the Kansas Union.
The second exam comes up and the student still has never seen a computer. He knows the computer works in base two and that it can store a machine, but is system software. When the student asks what system softwear is, he is told that it is a bunch of magnete appliance. This doesn't make any sense. It hangs long gone.
Schwartz's efforts, with Jan Busch, Leawood senior, assisting are being made in conjunction with the placement offices. The
students in the College of Liberal Arts and the other schools.
senior class is sponsoring the project with cooperation from the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Economic and Development and the Kansas Employment Security Office.
Campus Bulletin
Campus Crusade: Alcove D. Cafeteria;
Anas Union, 7 a.m.
ternational Room, Kansas Union, 8 a.m.
Anthropology 2    and   32    Woodruff
Anthropology 2 and 52: Woodruff Auditrium. Kansas Union, 8:30 a.m.
Psychology 175: Woodruff Auditrium.
Kansas University, 9:30 a.m.
School of Education, Alcove B Cafeteria,
815-642-4377
Speech Pathology: Alcove C Cafeteria,
Kansas Union, 11:30 a.m.
Russian Union, noon.
Kansas Union, noon.
GASB (History Gradu): Council, Kansas
Kansas Atty. Gen. Vern Mn尔 participated in the raid along with sheriff's deputies and agents in Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Social Welfare Student Field Instructors:
Lakshman Roam, Virginia 4pm.
GASR (History Grade1): Council, Kansas Union, 3:30 p.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union, 4 p.m.
SIMS: Big 8 Room, Kansas Union, 6 p.m.
SUA Ubers: Forum, Kansas Union, 6:30
a.m.
Carillon Recital: Albert Gerken. 7 p.m.
SUA Classical: Filma; Woodruff
Social Worker Annabella M. Smitz
Jacques, MBA, Union University, 4 p.m.
Brian, Blake, Rose, Kelsey, Kelson, 8 p.m.
Adult Progressive Rock
Auditorium, Kansas Union, 7:30 p.m.
Occupational Therapy. Pine Room.
Sheriff F. T. "Jim" Chaffee said the marijuana was estimated to be worth several thousand dollars. He said his office and the KBI had been matching the farm for some time.
Kansas Union, 7:30 p.m.
Navy Wives Rehearsal: Watkins Room,
Kansas Union, 8 p.m.
Kansas Union. 8 p.m.
"Freaks." Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union. 7:30 n.m.
A hydraulic press to squeeze the weed into blocks was found in the barn in which much of the weeds were caught in a loft to dry, Chaffee said.
Ad Seminar Is Planned
Approximately 35 people from 24 Kansas daily and weekly newspapers will attend an event at the University Saturday in the Kansas Union.
the seminar, which will be held annually, is sponsored by the William Allen White Foundation. Professor of Journalism and the William Allen White School of Journalism, James E. Dykes, professor of Journalism and head of the advertising sequence in the seminar, will be the seminar chairman.
Other speakers will include: W. Gustave De Smet, director of the Kansas City State Bank, lockhatch, senior vice-president of Bruce B. Brewer Co., of
Topics to be presented include ad sales and promotion, copy preparation and layout, and retail advertising campaigns.
KANU Schedule Stereo 91.5 FM
Thursday, Sept. 9
Bernard Gallet Views the Music Scene
— In "Music and Musicians of Canada"
— Movies
Review of movies in Lawrence
3. This Afternoon
4. Dinner (truth)
4- All Things Considered (from National Public Radio)
6. Music to Candlelight
7. Musical Theater University, Communication with Students*
8. Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert
9. Jazz Ensemble
10. Subterranean Swagrand
Class Card Discounts Offered by Businesses
Students who have taken the course will know that they will find themselves eligible for a number of discounts in certain local businesses this
The six already agreeing to give discounts are Taco Grande, Yuk Down, The Harbor, Hillcrest and Campus Bowl, and Campus Hideaway.
According to John Mize, Salin
Accoridng to senior and class president
of the university, he offers discounts to students who have
class cards. Mize said more merchants are being contacted in order to increase the number of participating businesses.
Taco Grande offers one free toastado with the purchase of a bag of chips. Students can eat on Sundays. Each of the four classes will have their own free night at the Uk Down. Seniors will enjoy free food on Wednesday nights, junior on Thursday nights, seniors on Friday nights and freshmen on Monday nights.
The Harbor will serve pitchers for 85 cents and draw for 15 cents on Monday and Tuesday for the next two nights. Thursday nights from 8:30 to 9:30. Students with class cards may play billiards for one hour with one hour of paid time for the last two nights at Hillcrest Billiards.
The Hillcrest Bowll will give a
decent discount to students after
a visit from the campus.
Thursdays The Campus
Hideaway offers free onboard on
Saturdays.
Mize said the offering of discouns this year was an effort to encourage students to pay their class dues. According to Mize, faculty members attend their class parties, therefore causing a drop in the purchase of class cards in recent years. Mize said all but the junior class have had an increase of discouns for class dues over last year.
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